Our team consists of lawyers who have done considerable research in human rights law; some of whom are also active members in non-governmental human rights organisations. They are all experienced in teaching human rights courses.

Dr. Carmen Thiele has studied law in the former Soviet-Union. Since 1993 she has been working as assistant professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) specialising in public international law, and has recently finished her doctoral thesis on minority rights in Estonia. She participates in a SOCRATES project which aims to produce a teaching manual on 'The European System of Human Rights Protection'. Frequently lecturing on human rights in Russian, she has acquired a wide-ranging teaching experience in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in the newly independent countries.

Teaching languages: Russian, English, German, Spanish.

Dr. Bettina Giesecke studied in Paris, Hamburg and Berlin, completed internships, for example with the German Foreign Office, and passed her bar exam in 1997. From 1997 to 2001 she worked as assistant professor at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) where she mainly taught constitutional and public international law. Her doctoral thesis deals with the relation of Russian law and public international law. She is now deputy head of the Inter-Parliamentary Affairs Division of the German Bundestag.

Teaching languages: English, French, German.

Dr. Annette Windmeisser, after her studies in Great Britain, Hamburg and Berlin, worked as assistant professor at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) from 1993 to 1995. Lectures included the European System of Human Rights and Minority Rights. After research in developing countries and internships with, inter alia, the European Commission, she passed her bar exam in 1998 and is now deputy head of the legal service of the German Federal Ministry for Development Cooperation. Her doctoral thesis discusses the enforcement of human rights in the development cooperation of the EU.

Teaching languages: English, French, German.

Dr. Ralf Alleweldt, LL. M (Euopean University Institute Florence), has written his doctoral thesis on the protection of refugees under the European Convention on Human Rights. He worked for several years with a lawyer practising mainly in the field of refugee protection. Since 1993 he is assistant professor at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).His research includes Eastern European constitutional law and the application of international law in the states of Central and Eastern Europe; he has held numerous lectures and seminars on the protection of human rights.

Teaching Languages: English, German

For further information, please contact:

MOST

c/o Dr. Ralf Alleweldt
Europa-Universität Viadrina
Postfach 1786
D-15207 Frankfurt (Oder)

Tel.
++49 (0) 30 227 35 326 (B. Giesecke)
++49 (0) 335 5534-363 (C. Thiele)
++49 (0) 335 5534-917 (R. Alleweldt)

Fax ++49 (0) 335 5534-915

Fax ++49 (0) 335 5534-915
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